I have a XP MCE PC with a 160Gb hard drive on it. I recently bought a new 500Gb SATA drive and installed on this PC. Everything is fine. I was able to move all my media files into this new drive. I was able to browse through the folder and everything. The problem: Everytime my PC goes to standby mode and comes out of it, I dont see this new drive in the explorer. I can see it in the device manager though. I have to restart the machine to be able to see it again. Any thoughts on this? Do I have the jumper settings on the old IDE to accomodate this new one? Am I missing something? Is there any BIOS setting that I need to modify? Thanks.
no, you don't need to change anything on IDE to accommodate SATA if you can see the drive, probably not does it have a yellow explanation mark over it in device manager ?
I figured out the problem. There was a setting in the BIOS that I had to change. Machine - emachines T5216 Motherboard : Mickelson Trail Motherboard BIOS --> Power --> some CPI suspend state --> The default setting is S3 state. Change this to S1 state. Thanks.
i think he means ACPI Wait State = 1 or 3[ot]i don't know how altering how the system suspends / enters standby mode, helps to rectify this problem, but if it works, it works[/ot]
I dont know what ACPI or the states 1 and 3 mean. It just worked for me. donkey42, can you share what these states mean?
off the top of my head i think[ot]i dont know which way round[/ot]but lets say State 1 = system is fully powered up mode, and State 3 = system in full standby mode[ot]i think, but it could be the reverse[/ot]Edit: or varying stages between Edit: Source you'll probably find it on Wiki
